The Man Servant (on Hulu)
The Man Servant….
When the not so Supreme Court overturned a woman’s right to make decisions over her health, her body, and the health of her baby; it set me to think about all the ways man has tried to control or subvert “the weaker sex”. It seems to me that women are far more suited to survive in the world without men than the other way around. I am perplexed as to why the show “The Man Servant Tale” or the “Stepford Husbands” has not been produced. Maybe it has been produced or at least thought of, but not to my knowledge. Patriarchy rules the process that creates what we watch and what we read. There is overwhelming evidence that males control females in most domains of social life. Is this perpetuated because men overwhelmingly occupy positions of power and therefore, make the rules? If I am making the rules in a tribal society, which seems the evident definition of our current society, then women will be kept down to protect the patriarchy.
Yet the conflict, as I see it, is further evident in day-to-day life. Women generally run the domestic agenda and more recently also work outside the home. Women are far more functional alone than men are when left on their own. They gain further support from a well curated system with other female friends. Men, on the other hand, cannot seem to survive without help. Certainly not a universal truth, but seriously, think about all of your male friends who are challenged if they need to cook, clean, or otherwise survive on their own. .
I am thinking back to the beginning of time when women ran the societal structure and sent the men out to hunt. A single-minded task that the men were proficient at and if not, then the dinosaur eats them eliminating the woman’s need to waste a good meal on someone who was not contributing to society...
In her 1993 confirmation hearing to join the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
In short, she is being treated differently—and less than—a man.
Damn, I need my shirt ironed and I’m hungry…..”Honey!!!!??”